m4 chip

Hi all, I have a MacBook M4 Pro with Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition. I also have two Unix hosts witch used to run on Amazon. Ubuntu for Intel architecture. I was led to believe I could at least read the hard drives and transfer files in this support article...

Dear Sir/Madam, I have installed Docker Desktop and the WSL dependencies on a windows 11 VM, however docker fails to run, seemingly due to missing HyperV tools. Indeed I tried to add HyperV tools but the guest OS does not seem able to support them... how can I solve this issue please? Host...

Im trying to install Windows 11, but both when asking Parallels to do it for me, and if I download the ISO (ARM) manually, Parallels seems to fail. The same thing happens to my colleague. This is the message that pops up: "Make sure that the specified file is a valid Parallels virtual machine...

Hello! After migrating from a Mac to another Mac, Parallels now has an error when starting Windows. The error is: Unable to start the virtual machine. The virtual machine cannot be started. I've tried deleting the .mem and editing DiskDescriptor file as described in other threads - with no...

I just got a macmini, I used the migration assistant to migrate my macbook. I activated parallels on the mini. Now when I start a vm I get this error "The configuration file is invalid". I tried to create a new ubuntu vm, same thing

Hello, I am a newcomer to apple MacBook and this Paralles Desktop forum. I have installed Parallels Desktop for Mac App Store Edition 1.10.3 (23904) on my new MacBook Air with M4 chip and macOS Sequoia 15.5. I have also finished installing Windows 11 and licensed it. Now I have several issues...

Just upgraded to Apple M4...REGRET IT. Not sure what the parallels virtual machine software has to do with running newer or older chips in the Mac. that should'be be an issue. ISN't THAT THE PURPOSE of having a VM??? Ive got an $40,000 thermography camera that runs on Windows 7. This is why I...

Apple has supported nested virtualization: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/isnestedvirtualizationsupported?changes=latest_minor Will Parallel Desktop support this?

Just got a mac mini with M4. Found out my 5 Virtual Windows machines aren't compatible with silicon. Opened the KB article 125344 and followed steps to Transfer data for my Windows 10 VM. Step 5 says to copy the data and paste it to a new folder. I don't know which "data" is relevant, so I...

Hi Userforum, I have the strange problem that Parallels does not start any more from my MacMini M4. When I want to start Parallels, theres the little Window opeining saying "Start" and 3 dots and then nothing happens. I use the latest parallels version. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Daniel

Hello, I purchased a Parallels 19 license back then and used it on my MacBook Air M1. Now, however, I own a Mac Mini M4 and would like to use the license on it. But I keep having issues where the format or medium cannot be created as soon as I download and install an OS. I think it might be...

Literally since yesterday, Windows 11 has started running impossibly slow. Unusable. Software is either hanging or crashing. Is there a known issue with the latest Parallels? Have any other users had this happen? Windows has 16GB RAM and 8 CPUs, so I don't see why performance should be a problem.

Hello, I searched and this wasn't covered in other posts (that I could find). I don't mean to be a bother but I've tried multiple ways to transfer a .pvm linux file from my Intel-based MacBook Pro over to my new M4 iMac (Sequoia 15.3.2, 36gb) with no success. I can't compress the file. I tried...

Hi, I'm using an M4 Pro MacBook Pro and I have Parallels Desktop 20 Pro. I want to run Intel-based Windows. I've read the document at "https://kb.parallels.com/130217#section2" but I don't see the option to start the emulator. Can you please help me? I urgently need Windows running on the Intel...

For software development I sometimes need to develop software older MacOS (or even OSX) versions, like 10.12 for example. Recently I learned to brute way that this is nor possible as such. Similar for older versions of Windows 7 and 10. It seems that Dekstop 20 does not accepted to start or...

Hello everyone, my specs is Mackbook pro 2024 (M4 chip) i tried play the game but it did not work properly as expected. I looked in the game log to get more information about glitch GUIses and found out that the game shaders compiles with error that leads to broke the renderer pipeline. I took...

Hi, I'm trying to install Kali and/or Ubuntu (Both ARM64 variants) via Parallels 2.0 on an M4 MBP and I cannot for the life of me get them to install. If I use the pre-built images, it works fine; However, if I try to install manually via ISO, it fails on both OSs with random errors each time...

Notting an article from Macworld https://apple.news/Ahz9VjsZcSm2Cn7qAGcf2oA is seems that certain macOS guest systems cannot be run on the latest generation of Mac's (M4). For those of us running macOS 12 in virtual machines utilising Parallels Desktop I wonder what will happen with support for...

I just migrated from M2 to M4 Pro Mac Mini and now my VM's will not start. I tried to install a new Windows 11 instance, and that will not start either. I've tried to reinstall and VM's will not start. Is there an issue with M4?

I am upgrading my i7 MacBook Pro to a M4 Mac mini. The MacBook has been my work computer for way too many years and it lags like crazy when running parallels. My main uses, which I generally have multiple running simultaneously: Flow models for engineering applications (parallels) Data...